Finland 1929 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Centre Party won 60 of 200 seats with 26.2% of the vote; 55.6% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Finland
Held Monday 1 July 1929

Result

101 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Social Democratic Party of Finland	59	27.4	260,254
Centre Party	60	26.2	248,762
National Coalition Party	28	14.5	138,008
Democratic Union / Left Alliance	23	13.5	128,164
Swedish People's Party of Finland	23	11.4	108,886
National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party	7	5.6	53,301
Small Farmers' Party of Finland	0	1.1	10,154

Votes by party

Social Democratic Party of Finland 260,254
Centre Party 248,762
National Coalition Party 138,008
Democratic Union / Left Alliance 128,164
Swedish People's Party of Finland 108,886
National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party 53,301
Small Farmers' Party of Finland 10,154

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Social Democratic Party of Finland27.4%
Centre Party26.2%
National Coalition Party14.5%
Democratic Union / Left Alliance13.5%
Swedish People's Party of Finland11.4%
National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party5.6%
Small Farmers' Party of Finland1.1%

Turnout

55.6% of the 1,719,567 registered voters cast a ballot (956,296 ballots). 951,270 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Centre Party26.2% of votes30.0% of seats
Social Democratic Party of Finland27.4% of votes29.5% of seats
National Coalition Party14.5% of votes14.0% of seats
Democratic Union / Left Alliance13.5% of votes11.5% of seats
Swedish People's Party of Finland11.4% of votes11.5% of seats
National Progressive Party / [Finnish] Liberal People's Party5.6% of votes3.5% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.0 by votes and 4.5 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Finland led Centre Party by 1.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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